Sometimes cops do have funny stories.

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Doug Maddox - 17 Dec 2006 21:08 GMT

A buddy of mine is a Sargent with a local department. He's a very laid
back and it takes a lot to get him excited. Well, he was on his way to
work driving his police cruiser (a dark brown crown vic with 6 antennas in
the trunk lid and lights in the back window) and someone was tailgating
him. He does all the things we would normally do, tap the brakes, slow a
little. Guy won't get off his back end. He didn't want to pull him over,
but it was just too much. Ran the guy's lic and it turns out he hadn't had
a valid license since 1988! How dumb do you have to be to tailgate a
police cruiser with out a valid lic & reg. After all the paper work was
written up and signed, the guy asks if he can just drive his car home?
Made him tow it.

Doug

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Jim Yanik - 17 Dec 2006 21:46 GMT

> A buddy of mine is a Sargent with a local department. He's a very laid
> back and it takes a lot to get him excited. Well, he was on his way to
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> Doug

they do the same thing after leaving court where their license was revoked
or suspended.(get back in their car and drive off.)
Sometimes the police wait outside and nab them again;IMO,that car should be
impounded.

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Ad absurdum per aspera - 18 Dec 2006 16:23 GMT

> How dumb do you have to be to tailgate a
> police cruiser with out a valid lic & reg.

Science has no answer to how smart a person can be, but we know that
dumb goes all the way to zero.

This, I trust, explains a great deal about driving. Combined with
various proportions of meanness, greed, mind altering substances, and
lack of perspective on one's own little dramas, it also is a powerful
motif in the clientele and day-to-day work of law enforcement.

I think recounting what they encounter in the form of funny stories is
one of the ways cops keep themselves from breakfasting on tequila
worms...

--Joe

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Doug Maddox - 19 Dec 2006 02:30 GMT

>> How dumb do you have to be to tailgate a
>> police cruiser with out a valid lic & reg.
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> --Joe

We all have these stories about our jobs. You're right, it keeps us from
driving off a bridge.

And of course, there are the "Left-handed Smoke-shifter" tricks to pull on
the newbies of any profession.

Doug
Hey, sometimes it gets dull around here.

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Alex - 18 Dec 2006 18:38 GMT

> A buddy of mine is a Sargent with a local department. He's a very laid
> back and it takes a lot to get him excited. Well, he was on his way to
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> written up and signed, the guy asks if he can just drive his car home?
> Made him tow it.

At least he didn't impound the car.
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Alex

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